Paradise concepts in politics, business and society are the focus of the European Tolerance Talks, which take place next week from 16 to 19 May in Villach and Fresach. The talks will be broadcasted live on the internet for the first time in 2018. In cooperation with BTV and Raiffeisenbank Kärnten, the organizer (Denk.Raum.Fresach) is…
“Zero tolerance – how networking and globalization shift claims and realities” or “The End of Tourism as we know it. Why we need to think the future anew” is the topic of a keynote speech by the Hamburg trend expert and futurologist Birgit Gebhardt at the opening of the tourism forum on 16 May at…
EU ambassador and startup entrepreneur Ali Mahlodji will open the exciting day program of the Love Tour ’18 on May 16th at 9 a.m. at the Parkhotel Villach (Großer Bambergsaal) with the theme “School with Heart – Just Save the World”. Mahlodji, who fled Iran with his parents as a child, explains how we can…
Paradise concepts in politics, economics and society are the focus of the European Tolerance Talks 2018, which will take place during the Whitsun week from 16 to 19 May in Villach and Fresach. Over 40 authors and thinkers, scientists and cultural workers will discuss ways out of Europe’s current media-political crisis of meaning. This year’s…
Turkish-German writer and human rights activist Dogan Akhanli will open this year’s European Tolerance Talks on May 17, 2018 in Fresach. Last year, Akhanli was arrested in Spain on the grounds of a Turkish Interpol warrant and released only after weeks of federal intervention in Berlin. Akhanli will dedicate his speech on the theme “Longing…
On the occasion of the presentation of the European Tolerance Talks 2018 in Vienna, the Salzburg historian and architectural theorist Michael Zinganel presented his theses on mobility and migration in the Alps-Adriatic region. Using numerous examples, Zinganel pointed out that it is above all the enormous expectations that bring people on their way, and these…
Vienna (18 Jan 2018) – In front of a the well-attended auditorium at the Oberbank Vienna the Denk.Raum.Fresach on Thursday evening presented the program of the European Tolerance Talks 2018, which are dedicated to the “Yearning for Europe” and the “Search for lost Paradise”. Architectural theorist and contemporary historian Michael Zinganel, currently honorary professor at…
Yearning for Europe About the search for the Lost Paradise With the main theme 2018, the initiators of the “Denk.Raum.Fresach”, try to analyze – in the year of the Austrian EU Council Presidency – the manifold issues, irritations and even tensile tests to which the European integration project is currently exposed. What follows on Brexit,…
Does freedom need democracy? And what is freedom worth if decade’s value building and systems collapse. What happens when long-standing traditions are thrown overboard or hard-won human rights are abandoned voluntarily on the Internet? These and other questions were discussed within the program preview of the European Tolerance Talks 2017 on 18 January in Vienna…
“Does freedom need democracy?” This is the title of a preview of the 2017 European Tolerance Talks organized by Club Carinthia together with PEN-Club Austria, Travel Industry Club and the international tax consultancy TPA on 18 January 2017 at BKS Bank in Vienna. The keynote statement is given by columnist Anneliese Rohrer, who has already…